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http://sms.cam.ac.uk/images/cam/identifier2.png19246http://video.search.yahoo.com/mrsshttp://sms.cam.ac.uk/institution/DAMTP/collections'The State of the Universe' - Stephen Hawking 70th Birthday Conference/Symposiumucs_sms_1225546http://sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/1225546
'The State of the Universe' scientific conference and the public symposium were held in Cambridge UK, to celebrate the 70th birthday of Professor Stephen Hawking. The conference was hosted by the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology (DAMTP) at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences in the University of Cambridge. We were very pleased to be able to hold this remarkable event for Professor Hawking, whose courage, insight and vision continues to have such an impact on the way we all understand fundamental physics at the extremes in black holes and the Big Bang. A major goal of the event was to review the current status of the fields of black holes, cosmology and fundamental physics; the 27 invited speakers are all world leaders in these fields.1225546Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecturesucs_sms_733813http://sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/733813
Andrew Chamblin, friend and colleague to many past and present members of the DAMTP Relativity Group, died suddenly and unexpectedly in 2006 at the very early age of 36.
Friends and relatives of Andrew have joined together to commemorate his memory by forming the Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture Fund with the intention of funding an annual lecture to be given in DAMTP on a subject of relevance to Andrew’s life and work.733813Beyond Part III - Young Researchers in Mathematics 2009ucs_sms_545247http://sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/545247
Conference highlights recorded over 16th April-17th April 2009545247DAMTPucs_sms_733811http://sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/733811
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics733811DAMTP Colloquiaucs_sms_1076558http://sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/1076558
1076558Dirac Lecturesucs_sms_1078276http://sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/1078276
1078276Enigma and Bombeucs_sms_729035http://sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/729035
729035Eurostrings 2015ucs_sms_2015306http://sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/2015306
The conference will cover a wide range of topics at the intersection of quantum field theory, gravity and string theory.
Novel features of quantum field theory and string theory.
Integrability and progress with N=4 Yang-Mills.
Scattering amplitudes in QFT and string theory.
Avatars of entanglement.
Black holes in classical and quantum gravity and in string theory.
The conformal bootstrap.
Applications of holography.
Higher spin AdS/CFT.
Cosmology and particle phenomenology.
Physical mathematics.2015306eurostrings_2015_masterucs_sms_2013609http://sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/2013609
2013609Fujitsu Lecturesucs_sms_650255http://sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/650255
The Fujitsu lectures are orginsed sporadically by the Centre for Quantum Computation, and are given on aspects of Quantum Computation and Information by notable external speakers.650255HPEucs_sms_2618628http://sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/2618628
2618628Lucasian Inaugural Lecture Seriesucs_sms_2193842http://sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/2193842
2193842Motivate Films -Under developmentucs_sms_1095327http://sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/1095327
1095327nrich Filmsucs_sms_1093713http://sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/1093713
1093713Quite Easily Doneucs_sms_1157706http://sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/1157706
A weekly homemade series of puzzles, tricks and mathematics from James Grime of Cambridge University.1157706Solar Plasma Spectroscopy: Achievements and Future Challenges Celebrating the Career of Dr Helen Masonucs_sms_1065470http://sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/1065470
Recent spectroscopic instruments such as the Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer (CDS) on board the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SoHO) and the Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) on board Hinode have revealed the importance of high quality atomic databases and plasma diagnostic techniques applicable to solar plasmas.
Dr Helen Mason has made major contributions in atomic physics for the solar corona and has been a founding member of the CHIANTI database. In addition she has played a pioneering role in the development and application of plasma diagnostic techniques to probe solar coronal plasmas, helping us understand the problem of solar coronal heating.
To honour Dr Helen Mason's scientific contributions and achievements, this conference was organised on "Solar Plasma Spectroscopy: Achievements And Future Challenges" by the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,(DAMTP) University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
The conference reviewed past and recent achievements, as well as future challenges in the fields of atomic physics and solar spectroscopy and their application to the problem of heating of the solar atmosphere. There was enthusiastic participation of colleagues from atomic physics, spectroscopy, and solar physics.
The topics covered were:
1. Development and application of plasma diagnostic techniques to measure physical plasma parameters in solar and astrophysical plasmas
2. Observations and modelling of solar active regions and flares
3. Atomic physics calculations and data1065470Stephen Hawking 75ucs_sms_2514173http://sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/2514173
A public symposium in honour of Stephen Hawking was held on 2nd July 2017. It featured an afternoon of public lectures from Brian Cox, Gabriela Gonzalez, Martin Rees, and Stephen himself.
The symposium was followed by a three-day international conference, entitled "Gravity and Black Holes," with distinguished speakers from around the world. The latest developments in gravitational physics and cosmology were discussed, particularly in light of the recent direct detection of gravitational waves.2514173The Royal Anniversary Trustucs_sms_689544http://sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/689544
Presentation of The Queen's Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education 2006
Awarded to The University of Cambridge by Her Majesty the Queen & His Royal Highness Prince Philip
Received by Professor Alison Richard (Vice Chancellor) and Professor John Barrow (Director of the Millennium Maths Project)689544The Very Early Universe 25 Years On (17-20 December 2007, CTC)ucs_sms_65http://sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/65
65Tim Gowers - Computational Complexity and Quantum Compuationucs_sms_545358http://sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/545358
Computational complexity is the study of what resources, such as time and memory, are needed to carry out given computational tasks, with a particular focus on lower bounds for the amount needed of these resources. Proving any result of this kind is notoriously difficult, and includes the famous problem of whether P = N P . This course will be focused on two major results in the area. The first is a lower bound, due to Razborov, for the number of steps needed to determine whether a graph contains a large clique, if only “monotone” computations are allowed. This is perhaps the strongest result in the direction of showing that P and N P are distinct (though there is unfortunately a very precise sense in which the proof cannot be developed to a proof of the whole conjecture). The second is Peter Shor’s remarkable result that a quantum computer can factorize large integers in
polynomial time. In order to present these two results, it will be necessary to spend some time discussing some of the basic concepts of computational complexity, such as the relationship between Turing machines and the more obviously mathematical notion of circuit complexity, and an introduction to what a quantum computation actually is. For the latter, no knowledge of quantum mechanics will be expected, and scarcely any will be imparted during the course: it is possible to understand quantum computation in a very “pure mathematics” way. The reason this is a graduate course rather than a Part III course is that I intend to give several lectures in an informal style that would be hard to examine. It is not because the material will be more advanced: indeed, my aim will be to make allowances for the fact that people will not be working on it with an exam in mind, and to make the course as easy to follow as I can. Having said that, the main results will be proved in full: the informal discussion will be with a view to making these proofs more comprehensible.
The collection will have 12 graduate level lectures which are currently being given during the Easter term 2009. Many thanks to Adrian Callum-Hinshaw for his help with these video lectures.545358Volvox moviesucs_sms_535810http://sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/535810
This collection includes movies that illustrate the biophysical fluid dynamics of the alga Volvox. Examples include the motion of tracer particles around colonies, the beating of Volvox flagella as seen with high-speed imaging, and the dynamics of interacting colonies.535810Young Researchers in Mathematics 2010ucs_sms_749595http://sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/749595
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